Cobalamin and Folic Acid Status in Relation to the Etiopathogenesis of Pancytopenia in Adults at a Tertiary Care Centre in North India
Table 1
Etiological diagnosis in pancytopenia.
S. No.
Diagnosis
Females
Males
Total
% of total
1
Megaloblastic anemia
40
45
85
60.7
2
Aplastic anemia
1
10
11
7.9
3
Acute leukemia†
0
11
11
7.9
4
HIV-AIDS
0
8
8
5.7
5
Kala azar
1
7
8
5.7
6
Chronic malaria
1
3
4
2.9
7
Disseminated tuberculosis
0
3
3
2.1
8
Chronic liver disease
2
0
2
1.4
9
Lymphoma
0
1
1
0.7
10
Myelodysplastic syndrome
0
1
1
0.7
11
CML with blast crisis
0
1
1
0.7
12
Metastatic anaplastic carcinoma
0
1
1
0.7
13
Metastatic gastric carcinoma (signet cell)
1
0
1
0.7
14
Niemann Picks disease
0
1
1
0.7
15
Gaucher’s disease
1
0
1
0.7
16
Acute subdural hematoma with transient pancytopenia
1
0
1
0.7
Total
48
92
140
100
HIV-AIDS: human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; CML: chronic myeloid leukemia. †Includes 4 patients of myeloid leukemia and 4 patients of nonmyelogenous leukemia, 2 undifferentiated leukemias, and one case of acute promyelocytic leukemia.